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Serving Athena - Julia L. Shear

Serving Athena

The Festival of the Panathenaia and the Construction of Athenian Identities

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Buch | Softcover
554 Seiten
2023
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-71938-4 (ISBN)
CHF 58,90 inkl. MwSt
The first full-length treatment of the Panathenaia, the most important festival in ancient Athens. Investigates how individuals participated in this long-lived, all-Athenian celebration, and how their participation constructed and fostered both group and social identity. Essential for anyone working on ancient Greece and especially Greek religion.
In ancient Athens, the Panathenaia was the most important festival and was celebrated in honour of Athena from the middle of the sixth century BC until the end of the fourth century AD. This in-depth study examines how this all-Athenian celebration was an occasion for constructing identities and how it affected those identities. Since not everyone took part in the same way, this differential participation articulated individuals' relationships both to the goddess and to the city so that the festival played an important role in negotiating what it meant to be Athenian (and non-Athenian). Julia Shear applies theories of identity formation which were developed in the social sciences to the ancient Greek material and brings together historical, epigraphical, and archaeological evidence to provide a better understanding both of this important occasion and of Athenian identities over the festival's long history.

Julia L. Shear is a CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University and a Senior Associate Member of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, having previously held a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and positions at Boğaziçi University, Istanbul and the University of Glasgow. She is the author of Polis and Revolution: Responding to Oligarchy in Classical Athens (Cambridge, 2011), which was shortlisted for the Runciman Award in 2012, and has published a significant series of articles on Athenian religion, memory, society and culture. She has also excavated extensively on various sites in Greece, Italy and Cyprus and especially in the Athenian Agora in Athens in Greece.

Preface; 1. The Panathenaia: An Introduction; 2. Giants and Heroes: The Mythologies of the Panathenaia; 3. The Little Panathenaia; 4. The Great Panathenaia: Ritual and Reciprocity; 5. The Panathenaic Games: Entertaining the Goddess; 6. Creating Identities at the Great Panathenaia: Athenian Men; 7. Creating Identities at the Great Panathenaia: Other Residents and Non-Residents; 8. The City, the Goddess and the Festival; Appendix 1. The Hellenistic Archons of Athens: 323/2 to 48/7 BC; Appendix 2. The Parthenon Frieze and the Panathenaia; Appendix 3. The Races for the Apobates and the Dismounting Charioteer; Appendix 4: The Pyrrhiche and the Tribal Team Events; Appendix 5: The Date of IG II2 3079 = IG II3.4 528; Appendix 6: The Officials of the Great Panathenaia in the Third Century BC; Appendix 7: Tiberius Claudius Novius and the Great Panathenaia Sebasta; Appendix 8: The Text of Agora XVIII C197; Tables; Bibliography; Index Locorum; Index of Collections; General Index.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 170 x 244 mm
Gewicht 1061 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Religionsgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-108-71938-4 / 1108719384
ISBN-13 978-1-108-71938-4 / 9781108719384
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